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A human is a creative creature. However, in most cases this creativity needs some tools to be implemented. This principle has a long history: some theories claim that in fact tools made apes evolve into human beings. Now the sticks and stones are exchanged by more refined instruments. Nevertheless, we still need them to develop ourselves and our works.

Web design and web development are not the exceptions. Either you are a professional or an amateur, you need good tools to start the work process. Since there will be Christmas soon, I believe it will be helpful to list some of the best instruments for web designer and developers: utilities, apps, magazines. Make some gifts for your loved ones, friends – or for yourself in case you’re a web designer of web developer.

Pens

Creative designer needs to improve his manual skills of drawing to struggle for more originality in his works. This tablet is a wonderful choice for such noble cause.

This pen display is not so cheap, however the value of the gift will be more because of that. The accessory can be praised for high resolution and deep colors. Read the rest of this entry »

Creative Market is a platform for handcrafted, mousemade design content from independent creatives around the world. It helps creatives easily access a wealth of beautiful design content for their projects. Whether it’s finding a unique vector pattern for a textile, the perfect font with personality for a new logo, or any other kind of digital creative content that helps you produce something amazing.

Creative Market is currently running a Black Friday Promotion, you can get 20% off your next purchase until midnight of 2nd with this Coupon link. In order to help you, we have selected the following great creative products you can take a look at.

When you’ve poured your heart and soul into designing a truly stunning app, it’s important to help show it off as best as you can. And what better way to show the look and feel of your app than by showing how it would appear running on a device? Whether it’s an iPhone, iPad, Android or desktop app or website, showing it in use gives it some context, adds some visual appeal and can help to make your landing page look smarter and more professional.

Of course, it can take a surprisingly large amount of work to create a mockup of a phone, tablet or laptop in Photoshop, but fortunately there are some incredibly talented designers out there who have generously released some templates that they’ve created for free.

We’ve put together a collection of some of our favourite device templates – each of these look stunning, and range from intricate and highly detailed, to flat and minimalist. We hope you find the collection useful for when you next need to show off your newly designed app – and as a reminder, please be sure to check before downloading and using them for commercial apps, as there may be some license restrictions.

Android Devices by Ian Mintz

Flat Apple Templates by Pierre Borodin

Perspective App Screens

We have published a post about Free eCommerce Platforms some time ago. Some readers suggested that we can make a post for premium eCommerce platforms as well. Here we have done a comparison of some of the most notable shopping cart software packages available.

I’m very aware that this is an incomplete list, and I plan on doing further research and posting eCommerce shopping cart reviews in the future. Until then, I hope this limited information helps send you in the right direction. Here you go, the Best Premium Shopping Cart Solutions Comparision.

1. Shopify

Shopify is a complete ecommerce solution that allows you to set up an online store to sell your goods. It lets you organize your products, customize your storefront, accept credit card payments, track and respond to orders — all with a few clicks of the mouse. The Shopify Theme Store hosts a collection of over 100 premium and free ecommerce website templates as well. Every website template comes with its own settings so you can quickly and easily customize your website’s design.

Features: 9/10

Pricing: 9/10

Customer Support: 9/10

Overall: 9/10

2. Big Cartel

Big Cartel is where artists set up shop. They provide clothing designers, bands, jewelry makers, crafters, and other artists with their own customizable store to sell their stuff online. You can pick one of the beautifully designed, pre-made themes and easily customize the images, colors, fonts, and more using the simple controls. You can also add your store to any Facebook page and connect your fans to your products through the seamlessly-integrated Facebook app.

Features: 7/10

Pricing: 8/10

Customer Support: 9/10

Overall: 8/10

3. Bigcommerce

Bigcommerce is a e-commerce website builder is designed to help you sell more. Their search engine optimization (SEO) gives you higher search rankings, meaning more free traffic to your store. You can choose from more than 60 payment gateways like PayPal, Authorize.net and Google Checkout. With discount and coupon codes, social media integration, newsletters, automatically generated customer lists and an abandoned cart saver, Bigcommerce gives you more marketing tools than anyone else.

As a designer, sometimes it’s difficult to get started on a new project. Maybe You will need to scour the web for inspiration, or doodle on a notepad to hopefully get some ideas. That’s when you need to look through collections of freebies.

Fortunately, enhancing your web design doesn’t have to cost a small fortune or take a lot of time. Here are 10 Awesome Freebies for Designers that can help enhance your web presence today.

1. Flat SEO icons

This set of 12 flat SEO icons is perfect for adding a light-hearted and playful tone to sites. The flat aesthetic is set off beautifully by the modern color palette and the addition of the long shadow technique is a sophisticated touch. Playful and approachable, the icons are useful for a number of different industries.

2. Colorful Grunge Textures

The pack contains 25 .jpg textures at 5000 by 5000px saved at 300ppi. The textures are compatible with all photo editors that support layers (Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, GIMP, Pixelmator etc.), both PC and Mac.

3. Modus Versus PSD Template

Modus Versus is a free multi-purpose PSD template, designed on the 1170 grid system. Excellent for use with responsive frameworks like the popular Twitter Bootstrap, it could form the basis of a good corporate site.

Some advertising Agencies and big corporations has done a very good job in advertisement. They are creative advertisements really stand out of the crowd, the idea is really out of the box, something that makes you laugh, talks about it or at least make you look twice.

They send a lot of money on trying to catch your attention, in this collection you’ll find 30 Brilliant & Creative Advertisements in Technology Niche that probably reached their goal. I am sure you can get some inspirations of creativity too.

1) Supr Responsive Admin Template

Supr is a full admin skin based on popular Twitter Bootstrap framework. This template is designed to help you build the site. Administration without losing valuable time. Template contains all the important functions which must have one backend system.

2) Aquincum Responsive Admin Template

Aquincum – a new premium admin skin with lots of custom elements, 35+ plugins and very flexible content structure. It has 3 columns liquid structure with 3 level navigation and 2 level sidebar. Available 10 main backgrounds, compatible with Bootstrap 2.0.3 and latest jquery versions.

We live in an age of data. It’s now possible to collect all kinds of data – from website analytics to stats on your fitness and health. But now that we’re able to start collecting data like this, we often find that there’s too much of it – that there’s too much noise and not enough signal. And to make it even harder, our attention spans are getting shorter. We don’t want to spend time digging through the data to understand it, we want the answer immediately in front of us.

As data, and the analysing of huge volumes of information, becomes more and more important to us, it also becomes more important that the answers are presented in a meaningful, simple and useful way. Designs that display the data effectively and beautifully are more likely to be used again and again, and designs that are complicated, noisy and hard to use will be ignored.

We’ve brought together a showcase of innovative, stunningly beautiful dashboard concepts & designs to help inspire you. If you’re about to start a project that deals with data visualization, hopefully this collection will give you some inspiration into how you can show your information in a useful, simple and uncluttered way.

New Dashboard Line Graph

Chartbear Dashboard

Cutest Paw Dashboard

Minimal Dashboard

jQuery Masonry is a dynamic grid layout plugin for jQuery. Think of it as the flip-side of CSS floats. Whereas floating arranges elements horizontally then vertically, Masonry arranges elements vertically, positioning each element in the next open spot in the grid. The result minimizes vertical gaps between elements of varying height, just like a mason fitting stones in a wall.

It’s suitable for websites with a stream of pictures. Users can browse the pictures in a seamless way without clicking “next page”. We have found the following 15 Great Examples of Websites using jQuery Masonry. I hope it can gives you some inspirations for designing similar style websites.

We have got a really nice collection of Free Web Icons for Different Purposes. So what if we just need more unique looking icons but cannot afford custom icons design? We may consider buying premium stock icons in this case.

Stock icons are usually the collections of specific icons, which stand for particular themes such as E-Commerce, Applications, Pictogram and etc. Some of our readers have asked where we can get quality premium stock icons at a very low price. Therefore, we have compiled a list of 20 Best Places to Buy Professional Stock Icons.

Please also stay tuned with our Free Icons section, which is updated regularly.